An American Family History

Solomon Brandstetter was born about 1790 in Heidelberg Township Northhampton County (now Lehigh County), Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Jacob Brandstetter and Maria Margaretha Bloß.

He married Maria (Mary) Kitchen. Mary was born in 1789 in Pennsylvania.

Soloman appeared in the 1812 Heidelberg Tax List.

Their children were Katie Brunstetter, Lizzie Brunstetter, Polly Brunstetter, Unnamed baby, Charles Brunstetter (1813), Jesse Brunstetter (March 8, 1818) and Catherine Brunstetter (1821).

In 1816 the records of an itinerant preacher show that he buried Solomon Brandstaedtler's child at Penntown on June 16th.

Soloman and Mary (Solomon Brumstetter) appeared in the 1850 census in Greenwood Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Soloman was 60 and a blacksmith and Mary was 61. A Mary E. Smith age 8 was also part of the household.

At the time of the 1860 census they were still living in Greenwood and Mary Elizabeth was still part of the household.

Solomon died on May 20, 1862 in Greenwood and is buried in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

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